Commitment of Traders

The Commitments of Traders (COT) is taken from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) website http://www.cftc.gov. For more information on about, usage and times of update of the CFTC reports please refer to the CFTC website. We make no claim to this information other than we display the information as taken from the CFTC website.

The COT is available as a plot in the Custom Charts.

The first line is the Commercials which is the difference between the Commercial Positions-Long (All) and the Commercial Positions-Short (All). This is the red line on the chart and is field number 12 and 13 respectively in the input file from the CFTC.

The second line is the Large which is the difference between the NonCommercial Positions-Long (All) and the NonCommercial Positions-Short (All). This is the green line on the chart and is field number 9 and 10 respectively in the input file from the CFTC.

The third line is the Small which is the difference between the NonReportable Positions-Long (All) and the NonReportable Positions-Short (All). This is the blue line on the chart and is field number 16 and 17 respectively in the input file from the CFTC.